Trace-holder



(Mode1.)

J. STRONG.

' TRACE HOLDER.

No. 311,686. Y Patented Feb. 3, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL STRONG, OF COLLEGE HILL, OHIO.

TRACE- HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 311,686, dated February 3, 18 85.

Application filed June 6, 1884.

To all LU7b0771/ it may concern: I

Beitknown that I, JOEL STRONG, of College Hill, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Trace-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists in improved means for holding the leathers ot' trace-holders, in I place of fastening them by screws or nails directly to the whiffletree, by which device the trace-holder is made safe and reliable, as here- 1 inafter specified.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side View, partially in section, of my improved trace-holder. Fig. 2is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is an end view with the leather cut off.

A is the socket of the holder, fitted on the end of the whiftletree B, and retained securely by a screw, a. C is the headed pin screwed into the end of the tree for receiving the trace, and D is the leather or key that passes through the end of the pin. The socket A is formed on its upper side with a tube or keeper, b, adapted for receiving the end of the leather, which is inserted therein and held by a screw, 0. As shown most clearly in Fig. 2, the keeper is tapered, and the leather being also tapered and put in from the rear, it cannot be d awn out in ordinary use even without the screw 0. The socket itself is much larger than those (Morle'.)

usually employed, so that the tree is strength 5 ened at the end around the pin G where the draft comes, and at the same time the holdingscrew or has a better hold in the wood than when placed at the end. The keeper b holds the leather securely, protects it from being 0 knocked off or out of place, and allows its ready renewal. The tree is not split and injured by nailing or screwing the leather directly to the wood, and the bending-point of the leather being at the outer end of the socket 5 near the eye in the pin gives a stifiness to the leather which retains it in place. I am thus enabled to use with safety a pin, 0, of the simple form shown, that does not require the trace to be turned or twisted in order to get it on the pin.

The keeper may be used with any of the usual devices for holding the trace which employ a leather key.

Having thus described myinvention, Iclaim as new and desire to seen re by Letters Patent- 1. In trace-holders, the socket A, formed with keeper 1), for receiving the end of the leather key, substantially as described.

2. In trace holders, the combination otsocket A. the keeper 1), key D, and the pin 0, having an eye for the key, substantially as described.

JOEL STRONG.

\Vitnesses:

P. MALLON, HARRY B. SMITH. 

